Word: wilber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington fans faced the season with glad hearts. Gibbs and General Manager Bobby Beathard seemed to end the quarterback schizophrenia by trading Schroeder. Owner Jack Kent Cooke shelled out $6 million to get Wilber Marshall from the Bears. We returned all the great players: Art Monk, Daryl Green, Kelvin Bryant, Williams...
...Wilber Wood...
...marketable long-grain variety to go around. Worse, the shipments will arrive at the beginning of August when the market is flooded with rice. Cash-hungry farmers will have to sell at the lowest price of the season. "These old boys need greenbacks right away," says Rice Farmer Wayne Wilber. "They won't get nearly as much as they would if they got their entitlements later in the season...
...effort that keeping up with The School for Scandal requires. The plot is spiderwebbed from the beginning: a "school" of conniving gossips with names like Benjamin Backbite. Lady Sneer-well, and Mr. Snake, whose greatest pleasure is to ruin the reputations of upright citizens through rumor. Lady Sneerwell (Shirley Wilber), it turns out, is also passing the time by angling for the heart of a young heir to-be-named Charles Surface (Stephen Rowe); her strategy is to connive with Charles's brother Joseph (Tony Shalhoub) in his attempts to win the heart of Charles's sweetheart Maria (Karen MacDonald...
Okay, you don't have to take Wilber's word for it. But as more "serious" physicists like Wheeler and Capra sound like Zen Masters, and more and more gurus get wired up to bio-feedback machines, and as the rational West more and more confirms the metaphysics of the intuitive East, someone you trust is bound to confirm a great deal of Wilber's work. Sure, there are a lot of fakes who take advantage of the "Gee-Whiz" aspects of the field. But the west is going to have to accept the study of levels of consciousness...